Date: Friday 6 August 2010
Time: 11:00-1:00pm (lunch included)
Venue: CPA Australia, Level 20, 28 Freshwater Place, Southbank
This CPA Australia event will target year 10, 11 and 12 students interested in exploring what it actually means to be a professional accountant, the different roles they can have, the opportunities an accounting qualification affords.
The format is a panel discussion followed by Q&A. Panellists will be dynamic, engaging members who represent different sectors within the profession.
For further information click here.
The popular VCTA Exam Revision Student Lectures have been frequented by thousands of students over the years. They do book out quite early so we suggest you do not delay.
Presenters include experienced classroom teachers who know how to engage students and prepare them for the exams. Attending students are provided with detailed handouts on the day.
The venue is the Old Arts Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville (public transport access via tram.)
* VCE Accounting: Saturday 11 September 2010 (pm)
* VCE Business Management: Saturday 11 September 2010 (am)
* VCE Economics: Sunday 12 September 2010 (pm)
* VCE Industry and Enterprise: Sunday 12 September 2010 (pm)
* VCE Legal Studies: Sunday 12 September 2010 (am)
The students can register themselves or you can make a group booking. For further details, including access to the program, click here.
This after-school professional learning program will support VCE Legal Studies teachers with exam preparation for 2010 as well as providing valuable assistance in getting underway with the newly accredited 2011 study design. And you will be sent (after the event) a complimentary copy of the newly updated Making and Breaking the Law (due for release October 2010), published by Macmillan Education Australia - VCTA Publishing.
In particular the program will provide participants with the following take-aways:
* a timely revision guide for 2010
* activities for Unit 4, 2010
* a suggested, detailed timeline for teaching the newly accredited 2011 study design
* activities relating to the new case studies approach in 2011
* a complimentary copy of the new Making and Breaking the Law, published by Macmillan VCTA Publishing (provided after the event - due for release late 2010).
5.00 - 6.45pm (registration and afternoon tea 4.30pm)
Thursday 19 August 2010
Hemisphere Conference Centre, 488 South Rd, Moorabbin
or
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Treacey Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.
VCE Accounting is due for reaccreditation in 2012. The draft revised study design is available for consultation from 21 July until 18 August 2010. The VCAA electronic consultation register is now open for all studies currently under review including for VCE Accounting; you can register here.
VCTA also invites you to be a part of our own VCTA forum providing feedback to VCAA.
VCTA focus group meeting - have your voice heard: Thursday 12 August 4.45 – 7.00pm at VCTA in Collingwood. VCTA will provide feedback to VCAA during the consultation period. We invite all members and partners to be involved in our forum to review the draft VCE Accounting study design. Opportunity will be provided for members to participate if you are unable to actually be there. To register your interest in participating in this focus group please email Vivian Le'Toille, here.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is responsible for the development of the Australian Curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Business Educators Australasia (BEA) has met a number of times with ACARA to discuss the development of the business and economics learning areas in the Australian Curriculum and have beenadvised that economics and business education will be included in Phase 3 in the development process.
BEA expects to gain additional details about what this will actually entail and further information, as soon as available will be placed on the BEA website soon (around August, 2010 is anticipated).
The BEA website will provide affiliates (including VCTA members) with developments as they occur.
Phase 1 drafts are available for K-10 curriculum for the learning areas of English, mathematics, science and history. Feedback closed on 23 May 2010.
If timelines are met, it is expected that the Australian curriculum for these four learning areas in P-10 years will be available from 2011, however this is to be confirmed.
The senior curriulum for these learning areas will be available for consultation between April and June 2010.
Should timelines be met, the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (VCAA), expects that
"for Years 11 and 12, it is expected that new Australian curriculum-based VCE courses in the subject areas of English, Mathematics, the Sciences and History will be introduced at Units 1 and 2 in 2013 and Units 3 and 4 in 2014" (see VCAA memo 129 /2009 dated 4 December 2009.)
In the same memo, VCAA states
"At this stage, it is expected that current VCE studies that substantially duplicate the new Australian curriculum subjects will be replaced by the new Australian curriculum subjects. There are no current plans to discontinue any VCE studies other than those covered by the new Australian curriculum subjects".
It is understood that VET and VCAL will continue to be offered as parallel senior secondary certificates.
Work has begun to develop the Australian curriculum for languages, geography and the arts.
Phase 3 includes design and technology, health and physical education, ICT, economics, business and civics and citizenship.
What each learning area will actually contain is not specified at this point in time. The Ministerial Council on Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA) has requested ACARA to provide advice about curriculum development for Phase 3 learning areas as identified in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians.
For further information or to subscribe to ACARA updates visit www.acara.edu.au
Developed specifically for business educators, this tour offers rich insight China's rise to economic superpower status.
Travelling through key economic zones, the tour will connect you to Australians doing business in China and to leading China business experts. This one is really worth checking out!
This excellent Business Educators Australasia (BEA) study tour is in September/October 2010 and is specifically designed for business and careers educators. The tour is managed by the Asia Education Foundation and delivered in partnership with Business Educators Australasia.
Full details, including a detailed itinerary and the price are available here.
For further enquiries email studytours@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
To visit the Asia Education Foundation site and for further details click here.